able bit of soil; the beds will be narrow, and the paths between them will be just wide enough to walk in, and the

not only possible, but advisab

with gardeners who aim to reduce the work to be done to the minimum, for in them the cultivator cannot be used to advantage, and weeding cannot be done with the facility which characterizes row-p

hem, which it could not do if they ran east and west, as the plants in them would shade all the ground except that in the first

he side of the garden. Then peas which grow tall enough to require bushing, and then beans, working dow

n be set to throw the soil toward a plant or away from it. It can be made to do deep or shallow work, as the case may require. As a general thing, after a plant has attained some

r of it. One side is a blade like the ordinary hoe. The other comes to a sharp point, with which it is possible to work close to a plant without running any risk of injuring it-something that cannot be done with the ordinary

either hoe or weeding-hook will come into daily use. The weeding-hook is a most important tool, though its cost is but ten or fifteen cents. It enables one to do a good deal of w